How to make a master bus track/envelope?

gary-beckwith wrote on 4/10/2018, 1:39 AM

Hello,

I have Movie Studio 13 Platinum

I am wondering how can I make the master bus into a track or an envelope so I can adjust the master output to different levels throughout the video.

In other words, as with all video tracks I can create a "composite level" envelope and adjust the composite level through the video. And with audio tracks I can do the same with volume and pan.

I would like to be able to do that with the master output level. there are a few places where it gets a little too loud (peaks too high) I would like to turn down the volume level in just those places, and keep it higher in the rest of the video.

It would be really difficult to control this on all each audio track individually (there are 6 audio tracks), and way easier if I could do it on the master.

Is there a way to do that?? seems like there must be!

if anyone can help me with this I'd really appreaciate it.

thanks!!!!!
gary in vermont

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EricLNZ wrote on 4/10/2018, 3:56 AM

Lack of buses and audio FX animation is sadly one of VMS's weaknesses compared to other consumer editors I've used or tried.

The only workaround that I'm aware to solve your problem is to render out your audio tracks to a wav file, import this to your timeline on a new audio track, then mute your original audio tracks. Then use the new tracks volume envelope with keyframes to reduce the volume in the loud places.

EricLNZ wrote on 4/10/2018, 6:43 AM

Looking at this further I find that if you add a Volume FX to the Master Bus then according to the Volume Plug-In's HTML help you can add an effect automation envelope. Problem is I cannot find how to add this envelope.

Is it available in VMS? or is this another situation where it's only available in Pro but the Help item hasn't been amended causing confusion and frustration for VMS users!

gary-beckwith wrote on 4/10/2018, 11:31 AM

Looking at this further I find that if you add a Volume FX to the Master Bus then according to the Volume Plug-In's HTML help you can add an effect automation envelope. Problem is I cannot find how to add this envelope.

Is it available in VMS? or is this another situation where it's only available in Pro but the Help item hasn't been amended causing confusion and frustration for VMS users!

thank you, i will look into that. i think adding automation to the master bus is a pretty simple thing that most people would want to be able to do!